Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
Thematic Bible
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
Then I came to those of the captivity at Tel-abib, who dwelt by the river Chebar, and to where they dwelt. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.
And having found disciples (we remained there seven days) who said to Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas within five days, where we stayed seven days.
Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel, and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed], but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.
where, having found brothers, we were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it. Neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it. Nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tend
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
And he was there with LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up onto the mount. And Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
So I fell down before LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because LORD had said he would destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
And LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them. And bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
Jesus says to him, I say to thee, not until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Spies in the land of canaan
Periods and numbers » Forty days » The embalming of jacob occupied
And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and pr
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
And again, when thou have accomplished these, thou shall lay on thy right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to thee.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
Now after these things the Lord also appointed seventy other men, and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
to whom he also presented himself living, after his suffering, by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days, and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended, afterward he was hungry.